内容摘要："It was going great until it fell apart." Richard Varvill recalls the emotional shock that hits home when a high-tech venture goes off the rails.

"It was going great until it fell apart." Richard Varvill recalls the emotional shock that hits home when a high-tech venture goes off the rails.

However, it is currently possible to sell food on TikTok Shop without providing any ingredient or allergy information.The BBC found one seller, Mega Buy UK, selling a sweet treat related to the popular Netflix show Squid Game and listed the ingredients and allergens as "not applicable".

Another UK-based seller called The Nashville Burger listed a burger-making kit that contained milk - one of the 14 allergens food businesses in the UK are required to declare on labels. It also contained wheat - which should be listed as an allergen under cereals containing gluten.However, on TikTok Shop, the allergen information was given as "spices" and the ingredient description simply said "flour".The BBC also found a seller called UK Snack Supply advertising lollipops and crisps with no ingredient or allergen information.

TikTok has deleted the adverts the BBC highlighted, but all three companies are still on TikTok Shop selling other products without providing full allergen information.The BBC has approached all of these sellers for comment but could not independently verify that the sellers were all listed in the UK.

However, allergy charities say regardless of where the firms are based more should be done to keep consumers safe.

TikTok is a place where food trends go viral - from the pickle challenge which involved eating a hot pickle wrapped in a fruit roll-up - toThere has been a wave of cyber attacks on high-profile retailers in recent weeks, including Adidas, Victoria's Secret and Harrods.

Marks and Spencer (M&S) and the Co-op had their operations severely disrupted when they were targeted in April.The UK's National Crime Agency has said catching the criminals responsible is

the hackers it was targeted by used a technique called "credential stuffing", where attackers try usernames and passwords stolen from another data breach, in the hope customers have reused the same passwords across multiple accounts.They say the attackers may have been able to gain access to some users' shipping addresses and purchase histories.